Volantis Secures $88 Million Series A Funding Led By Lachy Groom And Abstract Ventures

Volantis, a semiconductor company developing photonics-based AI inference systems, raised an $88 million Series A co-led by Lachy Groom and Abstract Ventures, with participation from John Doerr, VXI Capital, Triatomic, Susa Ventures and angels including Dwarkesh Patel, Naveen Rao and Sholto Douglas. CEO and co-founder Tapa Ghosh said the company is developing its A-1 system to eliminate the tradeoff between memory capacity and bandwidth, with plans to deliver its first integrated inference engines to customers in 2027. FOUNDER: Tapa Ghosh INVESTORS: Lachy Groom, Abstract Ventures, John Doerr, VXI Capital, Triatomic, Susa Ventures, Dwarkesh Patel, Naveen Rao & Sholto Douglas ROUND: Series A AMOUNT: $88,000,000 HQ: San Francisco, California #VentureCapital #Volantis #TapaGhosh #TradedVC